The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

Fred Saberhagen was alive when born. He means to continue.

Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.

I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips.